The only reason I know about this story is because I heard about it on BBC World News in the car — most major U.S. news outlets have ignored it.

Further discussion at Below the Beltway.
Of course, this is what is coming in Iraq, too. Iraq was a secular country under Saddam. But now we’ve put in place a Shiite government alied with Iran… Conservatives, for some reason, are surprised that the results of “bringing democracy to the Middle East” (I think that was reason #47, floated after reason #46 didn’t sell…) might not have been in America’s interests!